Sunday, April 24, 2005

Supreme Courts - Legal Theory There are a lot of great videos/audios about legal topics on the Internet. Here are a few of my favorites Supreme Court - US Interview with three justices (O'Connor, Scalia, Breyer), April 21, 2005, click here Justices Breyer and Scalia discussing the use of foreign law by the Supreme Court, click here Brown v. Board of Education (1954 school desegregation case) 50 years later, talk by journalist Anthony Lewis click here Oral arguments before the Court can be found at the Oyez site. The most popular audios are here. Or click here then choose the case you are interested in, and click on "resources" in the box on the left to get to the audio download. Supreme Court - South Africa Justice Albie Sachs of the South African Constitutional Court - lecture entitled "Freedom and Bread: the Judicial Enforcement of Socio-economic Rights" audio, very clear and easy to understand click here Legal Theory Conference on norms and the law click here to see the program Richard Posner on democracy - audio click here Justice Antonin Scalia (US Supreme Court) on Constitutional Interpretation click here Role of politics and the rule of law, at Stanford Law School click here Stem Cells: Science, Ethics and Politics at the Crossroads Part 1: The Science click here Stem Cells: Science, Ethics and Politics at the Crossroads Part 2: The Ethics click here for more legal theory links click here